4:30 pm Joseph Mendolera, Sr and Joe Mendolera, Jr.

(Wife and Mother)

9:00 am Jean Slivka (Marge Greenfelder)

11:00 am Frances Miano (Family)

7:30 am Margaret Puleo (Family and Friends)

7:30 am No Mass

7:30 am Communion Service

9:00 am Camille Manzo (Dolores Machen)

and Joseph Skladany (Family)

12:00 pm Communion Service with Ashes

7:00 pm For the Parishioners

7:30 am Lillian Wasielewski (Husband, Stanley)

4:30 pm Frances Koza (Wife and Mother)

9:00 am Lillian Wasielewski (Husband, Stanley)

11:00 am Stanley and Bette Gajda (Gajda Family)

Please note: $10,500.00 is needed weekly

to pay our bills and avoid going into debt

And the recently deceased: John Hurley, Alice Rocchiccioli, Elizabeth Baroni and, Emil Hilfer (Brother of Clarence Hilfer).

With the St. Martin VPL team planning the mission, they are inviting our neighboring parishes to come and to take part in the mission. Frs. Foster, Mahoney, and Mazanec have agreed to make presentations at the mission, a different priest on each night. Pray for the Mission.

If you wish to receive a statement of your 2002 Contributions, please fill in the information below and drop it in the collection basket. Statements may be picked up at the Rectory on Thursdays. If you wish to have your statement mailed, please attach a self-addressed stamped envelope.

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Dear penitents,

Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the day which begins the season of Lent. We are marked with ashes as a reminder of our sinfulness and mortality. Either of two sets of words may be uttered in giving ashes. The distributor could say, "Remember, you are dust and unto dust you will return." Or the distributor could say, "Turn away from sin (repent) and believe in the Good News (Gospel)." In either case, the spirit of the season encourages us to consider that our lives are finite, that one day each of us will die. When we die we will all have to appear before God to give an accounting of our lives.

The Lenten season helps to refocus us on what is important and what isn’t. We are called to acts of prayer, fasting and almsgiving, to lives of penance and conversion. In a world without rules, these disciplines and penitential practices are more important than ever. They move us beyond the living out of our Catholic faith solely in our heads. They help us to live out our beliefs from our hearts and in our behavior. I heartily encourage each of you to adopt some form of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving for yourself this lent. We do these things to become more like Jesus. Jesus often prayed in the middle of the night. He fasted forty days and nights. He gave away everything he had to give praise to the Father and to serve the needs of the poor. Let his example empower us to get started and to persevere.

Your brother penitant,

Fr. Jamie

Twenty couples are registered for the St. Martin of Tours Pre-Cana Day being held at the Center for Pastoral Leadership on Saturday, March 8. Our team has been diligently preparing in order to share a lively and spirit-filled day with the engaged couples. The team couples and Fr. Jamie and Deacon Bender relate their experiences about different aspects of Christian marriage. Please pray for both the team and the couples preparing for marriage.

"I see parish life as so central to our diocesan well being that I would say, ‘as the parish goes, so goes the faith of the people.’"

"My hope is that we will do all that is possible to sustain and enhance the vibrant parish life to which Jesus calls us."

This month’s theme will be "Strength through Weakness." We will explore answers to questions, What thorn in the flesh do you think God has given you? Do you see this thorn as a burden or a blessing?

Please note our meeting date is 1 week later than usual due to scheduling conflicts.

Ryan Aldridge, Sarah Bergman, Charles Brockman, Ashley Brown, Erin Chaloupek, Brooke Chernisky, Alexander Dennis, Danielle Depompei, Stacey Drapp, Kirby Foote, Robert Furino, Lyndsey Gall, Graham Gawryzewski, Mark Gordon, Maria Gugar, David Hearty, Allison Kenzig, Raymond Kus, Colleen Maher, Patrick Mannion, Tamara Manrique, Ray Mervar, Brittany Milkovich, Daniel Okienko, Rexford Pachuta, Matthew Paul, Billy Poderzay, Jason Pytle, Eric Scerbak, Erin Scerbak, Nicole Surman, and Renee Turk.

A pre-Lenten prayer service will be held this coming Tuesday beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the church. All are welcome. (Children should first report to their classrooms at the regular time, 6:45 p.m.)

Things to do when bored---

At lunchtime, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.

Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically when they answer.

Dont use any punctuation

Every time someone asks you to do something, ask them if they want fries with it.

(from CROSS LINKS by Rev. Herb Yost, CSC, 2002)

When bored, we need to be renewed. Jesus said to put his new wine (his Spirit) into new wine skins (our open hearts). Life can be boring with its repetitiveness; life can also be exhilarating as long as we don’t retreat into our comfortable selves. Rather, let the Holy Spirit breathe into us and stretch us into our best selves possible.

On Saturday February 22 at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist ten people were certified by Bishop Pilla as lay ecclesial ministers for the Diocese of Cleveland. I was privileged to be one of them.

There are so many ways that others have touched my life for the good. But none have touched me more profoundly than you, the people of St. Martin of Tours. Twenty years age you provided me with employment as your parish bookkeeper, and in addition to that you accepted me as a member of your parish family. In all that time you never once failed to show me that I was "one of you." I am especially grateful to all those women and children in this parish who grace my life abundantly by sharing their life and love with me. I have no doubt that the call to Pastoral Ministry came from you, from the love you bear one another, a love that I was privileged to witness time and time again, the same love you have so generously shared with me.

Please know that my door is always open!

Linda McClean

Comptroller/Pastoral Minister

CYO Athletics endeavors to help young people be more Christ-like in the way they live. CYO programs focus on the total development of Christian values and off the court.

The CYO coaching peers, site directors, commissioner and officials have nominated the 4^th Grade Girls to receive this award.

Congratulations to:

Head Coach: Steve Crooks

Assistant Coach: Tim Price

Players: Taylor Crooks, Candice Price, Kelly Uber, Ashley King, Alley Malek, Jessi White, Julia Adams, Alex Gudat, Sam Gudat, Alyssa Licker and Danielle DePompei.

Congratulation to the 7^th grade JV Boys Basketball Team. The team compiled a 10-0 league record and won both of their league tournament games on their way to the league and league tournament championships. The members of the JV Basketball Team are: Danny Alten, Marc Beechuck, Joe Bossard, Richard Cegonko, Dominic Dieglio, Ricky Fielder, John Kus, Patrick Majercik, Adam Nealon, David Rolf and Nick Womack.

When: Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2003

Where: St. Wenceslas Church, 17825 Libby Rd

Time: 4:00-7:00 pm

Price: Adults $7.00 Children (12 & Under) $3.24

Applications for registration for kindergarten children for the 2003-2004 school year may be picked up in the school office until March 3, 2003. These forms must be returned to school by March 3, 2003.

St. Martin of Tours School will be selling Malley’s Easter candy until March 18th.  Order forms are available in the back of the church or in the school office.  If possible, payment at the time of ordering would be appreciated--if not, payment is due at time of pickup, which will be on April 10th in the school library from 8a.m. to 6p.m.  Your support in making this fundraiser a success is greatly appreciated.

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